Django default language

Question

I have a django application which has default language set to French. All translation strings in the code and html pages are in french. Switching between differents language works fine. But now I need to hide french language, so I changed LANGUAGE_CODE to 'en-us', but default page always displays in french, did I miss something ?

Thanks

Answer 1

I faced this problem just recently, here's how I could manage to fix it without changing any browser's locale language:

the idea is to create a middleware to force language translation based on the LANGUAGE_CODE setting, here's how the middleware might look like:

from django.conf import settings
from django.utils import translation

class ForceLangMiddleware:

    def process_request(self, request):
        request.LANG = getattr(settings, 'LANGUAGE_CODE', settings.LANGUAGE_CODE)
        translation.activate(request.LANG)
        request.LANGUAGE_CODE = request.LANG

save this snippet as middleware.py in your main app (I assume it's called main) and then add main.middleware.ForceLangMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES

Answer 2

i found this https://gist.github.com/vstoykov/1366794 . It forces I18N machinery to choose settings.LANGUAGE_CODE as the default initial language.

Answer 3

I had some trouble with this too once... It's because most modern web-browsers send their locale setting in the request, and Django automatically uses that language instead if it can.

Unfortunately I don't remember what I did to solve this, but I hope it gives you some pointers where to look or search for.

Answer 4

In your settings.py file you have a LANGUAGES tuple.

LANGUAGES = (
    ('en', gettext('English')),
    ('sv', gettext('Swedish')),
    ('no', gettext('Norwegian')),
)

If you're using Django Multilingual, you can also set DEFAULT_LANGUAGE setting:

DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = 1 # the first one in the list